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WNO The Blaze of Glory!
A jubilant celebration of the Land of Song
Only a couple of months after becoming the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor & artistic advisor, Kazuki Yamada (pictured) brings down the curtain on the 2022/23 season with an imaginative programme of work celebrating British music across a period of 100-plus years.
The concert is kickstarted with the world premiere of Dani Howard’s CBSO Centenary Commission, The Butterfly Effect, after which Britten’s Serenade For Tenor, Horn & Strings delights, haunts and terrifies in equal measure.
The evening - and the season - is brought to a close with a performance of Elgar’s energetic and deeply personal First Symphony. The piece was written by the Worcestershire-born composer at the age of 51 - a full decade after he’d first attempted to write a symphony.